Core Actions of PFA
Principals of PFA
Incident Command
System
Guidelines for PFA
Grab Bag
100
Providing basic resources such as food, clothing, financial assistance and other services.
What is Practical Assistance?
100
When survivors are feeling their world is falling apart and they are overwhelmed with the feeling everything is hitting them at once they need this.
What is Hope
100
This plan outlines how the district will respond in the event of an emergency.
What is an Emergency Operation Plan (EOP)
100
Speak slowly and calmly, using concrete terms and being patient, responsive and sensitive.
What is one way to engage survivors?
100
An ability all humans are born with but most loss over time from muscle atrophy.
What is wiggling your ears?
200
This technique is helpful in providing Stabilization for survivors.
What is a grounding or calming technique?
200
Calmly helping survivors identify coping skills is an example of this principal of PFA.
What is Calming
200
The person who has knowledge of the incident and the ability to recognize any possible issues is said to have this.
What is "situational awareness"?
200
This group includes children, those who are injured, survivors with multiple relocations, people with serious mental illness, those with physical disabilities, substance abusers, disaster response personnel, those who experienced significant losses, economically disadvantaged groups, and those who experienced previous trauma
What are At-Risk Populations?
200
Pteronophobia
What is the fear of being tickled with feathers.
300
Provide information that iscurrent and accurate but not excessively upsetting is a key action of this Core Action.
What is Safety and Comfort?
300
Helping survivors to identify strengths and begin to rebuild their lives and communities.
What is Connectedness
300
When a person in your contact chain does not respond to your text.
When do you provide a follow up phone call?
300
Doing this during initial contact prevents undermining a survivor's own resources.
What is observing first?
300
Doing this may hurt some but it burns 150 calories an hour.
What is banging your head against the wall?
400
Responding to those who seek you out first is an example of this Core Action.
What is Contact and Engagement?
400
When a responder addresses misinformation or distressing reports, supports family reunification and safety concerns they are following this principal.
What is the Safety Principal
400
Terrorist attacks, Hazmat spills, car accidents and search and rescue operations are all examples of this.
What is an incident needing a coordinated response or an Incident Command System
400
Making assumptions about what survivors are experiencing or assuming that everyone will be traumatized.
What is a behavior to be avoided?
400
When this animal is upset it's sweat turns red?
What is a hippo?
500
The Goal of the Core Action is to teach about stress reactions and coping to reduce distress and promote adaptive functioning.
What is Information on Coping?
500
Helping people reconnect with loved ones or others in similar circumstances.
What is Self and Community Efficacy
500
The PFA team falls under this branch of the Incident Command System.
What is the Operations Branch?
500
When a child acts and speaks younger than they are developmentally after a traumatic event.
What is developmental regression?
500
Blue
What is Tod's favorite color?
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